I'm having problems running vat with newpcm: after opening the device the sound begins for a fraction of a second, then stops. Maybe this has to do with the fact that vat uses /dev/audio and not /dev/dsp; I've tried to open /dev/dsp instead and change the device format but the result is the same. Or maybe this has to do with the non-blocking opening done by vat (I've changed this too, same result). But strangely enough, a cat > /dev/audio, amp or mpg123 all work ok. The chip is the following. The kernel is configured with just "device pcm0". From a ktrace, vat does nothing but writes to the device. pcm0: <CS4236B> at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1,0 on isa0 unknown0: <Game> at port 0x3a0-0x3a7 on isa0 unknown1: <Ctrl> at port 0xf00-0xf07 on isa0 unknown2: <MPU> at port 0x330-0x331 on isa0 -- Pierre Beyssac [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message